Now, you probably guessed it by now, but, yep… that entire two minute video was narrated using artificial intelligence.

As in…a human did not speak a word in that video. A machine learning program generated the entire narration.

You just heard a demo of one of the most advanced text-to-speech programs in existence today…built by two guys you've never heard of in Seattle.

Their program “reads” sentences off of a script and produces the sounds that it believes a human would make if they were reading the same sentences aloud.

(Okay that’s a little vague, but you get the general idea…)

The result is what you just heard: a humanlike voiceover track generated entirely using artificial intelligence.

Pretty cool, right?

Their technology rivals the bleeding-edge research being done at companies like Google.

Seriously, here's a side-by-side demo of Google’s best-of-market WaveNet voice reading the same paragraph as two of WellSaid's voices: WellSaid vs. Google.

Google is working on better voices (look up “Tacotron 2”), but they're not commercially available yet -- also, when you read the “fine print” in the research papers themselves you’ll realize that their technology has far more limitations than meets the…ear.

“So, all of that’s cool, but what would people even use this technology for?”